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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2024

By
Douglas Hedley  and
Daniel J. Tolan
Edited by
Douglas Hedley  and
Daniel J. Tolan
Douglas Hedley
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Daniel J. Tolan
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

The concept of participation has a long and complex history. It is also inextricably linked to other cognate issues such as the nature of universals, analogy, perfect being theology, or the problem of evil. Elucidating its history and its possible relevance today for both philosophy and theology is the aim of the present work. ‘Participation’ is a central concept in various forms of Thomism, and yet it has become marginal in much post-seventeenth century Western philosophical thought. This volume should furnish a handbook and guide to such a paradigmatic, and yet enigmatic, concept. The last few decades have seen a remarkable upsurge in the study of Neoplatonism, with a flowering of commentaries and translations; this volume builds upon this outstanding development in recent scholarship. Whereas the Victorians and Edwardians were often apt to envisage Neoplatonism and its key concepts as symptoms of an age of decadence, contemporary scholarship has successfully revised this view of Late Antiquity.

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Participation in the Divine
A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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